These modems would often slot into a Mini PCI-e slot in the netbook motherboard. [delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead. It’s actually a fairly straightforward hack.

motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics. PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 ...

As long as you accept needing to supply external power with even a low-end GT 1030 card – as the PCI slot cannot provide enough power – and being limited to a single PCIe lane. This latter ...

All of the adapters below are available as external USB modules as well as PCI or PCI Express (PCIe) cards that plug into an empty slot on the motherboard. See PCI and PCI Express. Cellular ...

These include NVMe, PCIe, SATA III, and USB. USB is the most popular for external SSDs, SD cards, and USB flash drives. M.2 slots are used by thin SSDs and can be either SATA III or NVMe (PCIe).